Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that.

To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

The miserable person is easily enslaved.The cheerful person,the blissful person,cannot be enslaved.

If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.

It is the deep urge to be one with the whole, the deep urge to dissolve I and thou into one unity. Love is that because we are separated from our own source, out of that separation the desire arises to fall back into the whole, to become one with it.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

One of the greatest problems that money creates is that you never know whether you are loved or your money is loved, whether you are desirable or your money is desirable. And it is so difficult to figure out, that one would have preferred not to have had money; at least life would have been simple.